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...During Katie Couric's first week anchoring the CBS Evening News...
...TIFFANY NETWORK Katie Couric settles her digitally slenderized posterior into the anchor chair warmed previously by gentle white men. The newscaster promptly strikes a blow for gender equality by conducting her all-grown-up softball mainstream-media interview with the President. You go, girl...
...Katie Couric introduced the segment with archival footage of CBS News airing baby snaps of Prince Charles. That self-serving comparison had a kernel of truth: celebrity offspring are like royal heirs. The parents hoist their issue before the throngs to prove, if not their virility, like kings of old, then their humanity...
...secrets are for people who can afford them, and Cruise is not the only figure who has had to learn that. Wednesday evening on CBS, President George W. Bush talked with Couric and the world about his secret baby, the CIA's clandestine prisons. (Suri, naturally, got higher ratings.) Compelled by the Supreme Court to find a legal way of trying detainees and by dismal polls and midterms to argue for his antiterrorism strategy, the President whose Administration once defied the press to claim the prisons existed now gamely said they had--and here are the baby pictures, Katie...
...lucky week for Katie Couric to open shop. It was an edifying week for the rest of us. But don't get used to this Washington-Hollywood glasnost. Openness, after all, can be as strategic as secrecy. Measured. Calculated. Dedicated toward the day when you're strong enough again to roll down the shades, put up the walls and pack the baby pictures safely away...